Micro Grant Application Closing, Fall Beautification, & More!

Arts & Culture * Beautification * Service

Fall Community Micro Grant Application

Closes November 1, 7pm

Newton Community Pride's Fall 2022 Community Micro Grant application is closing on November 1 at 7PM! This program is available for creatives, organizations, non-profits, area councils & neighborhood groups whose events, beautification, or service projects are consistent with our mission. This is an opportunity to apply for seed money to support your projects, events, and programs that will occur between December 1 and June 30, 2023. Grants range from $300 to $1,500. Applicants event/project needs to benefit the Newton community or occur in the City of Newton.

Applicants will be notified of their grant on or before November 18th.

Learn more here.

Fall Beautification & Request for Greenhouse

Although it might be fall, NCP is planning now for our spring 2023 growing season. This week, NCP's Beautification Committee was busy at Newton Centre's All-American Garden removing summer and fall flowers to make room for more than 600 bulbs. Thank you to our volunteers who lovingly and tirelessly tend to these beautiful award-winning gardens!

NCP needs your help and hopes someone can provide a lead or greenhouse opportunity for us to use in 2023. The greenhouse structure we had used for over 18 years is no longer usable due to unfortunate consequences that occurred during the pandemic. We are now in desperate need of greenhouse space to prepare plants for the All-America Garden in Newton Centre. NCP is looking for a minimum of 300 square feet of greenhouse space with

ample sunlight and access to running water & electricity to grow 800 seedling

plants from March to May 2023.

If you have any leads or greenhouse space please contact

Beautification Committee co-chair, Howard Sholkin, hsholkin@gmail.com

or contactus@newtoncommunitypride.org

Pictured: Barbara Rutberg & Binnie Estrada

Pictured: Alan Cushing

Pictured: Pat Rand

News From Our Grantees

23rd Annual Halloween Window Painting

The Newton Parks, Recreation & Culture Department is hosting the 23rd Annual Halloween Window Painting Event tomorrow, October 29, 9AM-4PM! The lively and colorful event will feature original creative artwork by children in grades 3-8, painted directly on participating merchant windows in six village centers: Auburndale, Newton Centre, Newton Highlands, Newtonville, Nonantum, and West Newton.

Newton Community Pride is proud to support PR&C with a Community Grant as the "The Great Pumpkin" Sponsor for this event.

Sponsor Spotlight

Seana Gaherin & Dunn-Gaherin's

Hi, my name is Seana Gaherin, owner and proprietor of Dunn-Gaherin's in Newton Upper Falls. For over 30 years, we have welcomed the community into our establishment with our Irish hospitality of warm and comforting food, excellent drinks, and the promise of a wonderful time. I am very involved in the Newton community and believe it is important for residents and businesses to come together and support each other.

As a former Newton Community Pride (NCP) Board member, I saw firsthand the impact & prudent fiscal stewardship of this small nonprofit. It was an easy choice to financially support NCP. NCP brings our community together with its public art initiatives and free and joyful concerts and festivals. I was pleased to see that they brought one of their Fall Village Concerts to Pettee Square in Upper Falls this year. I am also especially supportive of NCP’s community grants, and their newly formed youth arts scholarship programs, and I love their public art so much that I now have my very own “Sit & Let Your Spirit Soar” bench at Dunn-Gaherins'!

NCP’s mission of fostering great ideas and producing uplifting projects and events for our City is why I am proud to support this terrific non-profit at the “Benefactor of the Arts” level.

Pictured: Seana Gaherin

Support Our Impactful Programming

At Newton Community Pride we love what we do and hope you do too! From city-wide public art & free music festivals to tending to our award-winning gardens, and supporting great ideas & events with micro grants and operational support, our small nonprofit couldn’t do any of it without your help. Please consider showing your Newton community pride by donating online or by mail today and help us continue to bring arts, culture, beautification, and service to Newton.

Watch a clip from one of our 2022 Fall Village Concerts with Lydia Harrell & George Russell Jr.